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Halloween Novelization Is Getting Re-Released With A Fully Illustrated Reprint!

On October 1st, 1979, the official HALLOWEEN novelization based on John Carpenter’s immortal classic, hit bookstores, much to the delight of a brand-new fandom. In the 44 years since then, finding an actual copy, especially in recent years, has been next to impossible with copies popping up every so often from resellers ranging from the cheapest I’ve seen, around $250, all the way to $2,000. While I understand reselling is a job for some, taking advantage as something as precious as this, is just downright cruel. However, Printed in Blood is here to remedy this blasphemy and in conjunction with a license under Compass International Pictures and with full cooperation of the original author, Richard Curtis (who penned the original novel under the name Curtis Richards), is re-releasing the coveted book with illustrations at a price the average Halloween-Head can afford!

Per Printed In Blood:

Printed In Blood is VERY proud to present the ORIGINAL movie tie-in novelization, reprinted in full here for the first time in over 40 years! In addition, it has been fully illustrated throughout with nearly a hundred BRAND-NEW Illustrations created just for this release by the vector genius, Orlando “Mexifunk” Arocena. This 224-page volume is bursting with both classic and gorgeous new artistic visions of the John Carpenter horror classic.

This Limited Edition cover features the classic paperback cover art re-created by Orlando.

The reprint will be available in two different versions, one with a limited-edition cover that reimagines the cover to the original novelization, and a standard cover that has not yet been revealed for a steal at $50. Another option is the VERY limited edition that WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE THROUGH OCTOBER 1st, and features the classic paperback cover art re-created by Orlando and is signed by both the author, Richard Curtis and the artist, Orlando Arocena. It also includes 2-8.5x11in. mini-prints of Orlando’s previous Halloween works from the “Halloween: Artbook” and an Original Hand-drawn 5 x7 sketch by the book’s artist, Orlando Arocena. This version is limited to 250 prints and runs at $300.

I don’t know about you, but I hopped on this pre-order faster than Lonnie getting his “ass away” from the Myers house. You can pre-order your copy right now through PRINTED IN BLOOD HERE with an expected ship date of January 2024!

Finally, I’ll be able to complete my collection!

PEACOCK Expands Halloween Streaming With a MONSTER 500 Title Lineup: Here’s the Complete List!

A few weeks ago, PEACOCK streaming announced a healthy dose of Halloween streaming pre-gaming starting September 1st. As of today, the NBC UNIVERSAL owned streaming giant has added an impressive load of scary flicks, special Halloween-themed episodes, and original content all ready for us to binge right now with several releases coming in October.

In addition to these fan-favorites, exclusive content such as FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S premieres on 10/17 with JOHN CARPENTER’S SUBURBAN SCREAMS, a genre-busting unscripted horror anthology series from the mind of legendary director, writer, and producer, John Carpenter, comes to PEACOCK on 10/13.

PEACOCK returning horror TV comes in hot with season 4 of CHUCKY, coming in at 10/5 and WOLF LIKE ME hitting the deck on 10/19.

As for the rest, grab your good reading glasses because it’s a MONSTER lineup!

*= exclusive titles

RECENTLY ADDED (September):
Amityville 3-D, 1983*
Amityville II: The Possession, 1982*
Amityville Uprising, 2022*
Amityville: The Awakening, 2022*
Bride of Chucky, 1998*
Bride of Frankenstein, 1935
Candyman, 1992
Casper: A Spirited Beginning, 1997
Casper’s Scare School, 2006
Child’s Play 2, 1990*
Child’s Play 3, 1991*
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, 2009
Cult of Chucky, 2017*
Curse of Chucky, 2013*
Curse of the Werewolf, 1961
Cut, Color, Murder, 2022
Dawn of the Dead, 2004*
Dead Silence, 2007
Dr. Cyclops, 1940
Dracula, 1979
Dracula’s Daughter, 1936
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, 1943
Frankenstein, 1931
Frankenstein, 1931
Get Out, 2017
Ghostbusters II, 1989*
Ghostbusters, 1984*
Halloween II, 1981*
Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982*
Halloween, 2018
Happy Death Day 2U, 2019*
Hollow Man 2, 2006*
Hollow Man, 2000*
Hypnotic, 2023*
Insidious: Chapter 3, 2015*
It Came from Outer Space, 1953
Land of the Dead, 2005
Mercy, 2016
Monster High: 13 Wishes, 2013
Monster High: Boo York, Boo York, 2015
Monster High: Freaky Fusion, 2014
Monster High: Haunted, 2015
Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 2008*
Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe, 2016
Murder, She Baked: A Peach Cobbler Mystery, 2016
Night Monster, 1942
Patient Zero, 2018*
Phantom of the Opera, 1943
Phantom of the Opera, 1962
Prince of Darkness, 1987
Psycho 1960
Psycho 1998
Psycho II, 1983
Psycho III, 1986
Pumpkin Pie Wars, 2016
Saboteur, 1942
Saw 2, 2005
Saw 3, 2006
Saw 3D, 2010
Saw 4, 2007
Saw 5, 2008
Saw 6, 2009
Saw, 2004
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 2019
Seed of Chucky, 2004*
Shocker, 1989
Slither, 2006
Son of Frankenstein, 1939
Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood, 1996
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, 1995
Tales From the Hood 2, 2018
Tales From the Hood, 1995
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, 1995*
The Amityville Harvest, 2020*
The Amityville Moon, 2021*
The Birds, 1963
The Bone Collector, 1998
The Creature Walks Among Us, 1956
The Dead Don’t Die, 2019*
The Evil of Frankenstein, 1964
The Frighteners, 1996
The Funhouse, 1981
The Grudge 2, 2006
The Grudge 3, 2009
The Invisible Man Returns, 1940
The Invisible Man’s Revenge, 1944
The Invisible Woman, 1940
The Last Exorcism, 2010
The Mummy Returns, 2001*
The Mummy, 1999*
The Mummy, 2017*
The Mummy’s Curse, 1944
The Mummy’s Ghost, 1944
The Mummy’s Hand, 1940
The Mummy’s Tomb, 1942
The People Under the Stairs, 1991
The Possession, 2023
The Purge: Anarchy, 2014
The Raven,1935
The Serpent and the Rainbow, 1987
The Skeleton Key, 2005
The Strange Case of Doctor RX, 1942
The Thing, 1982
The Thing, 2011
The Visit, 2015*
The Wolfman, 2010
They Live, 1988
Thirst, 2009
Us, 2019
Videodrome, 1983
Village of the Damned, 1995
Werewolf of London, 1935

NEW! 
October 1: 
Escape Plan, 2013* 
The Exorcism of Emily Rose, 2005 
Exorcist: The Beginning, 2004 
The Faculty, 1998 
Happy Death Day 2U, 2019* 
I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1997* 
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, 1998* 
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, 2006* 
Krampus, 2015* 
The Last Exorcism, 2010 
The Mist, 2007* 
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 2019 
Separation, 2021 
Shaun of the Dead, 2004 
Silent Hill, 2006* 
Split, 2017* 
Texas Chainsaw 3D, 2013* 
Winchester, 2018* 
Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey* 
Zombieland, 2009*  

October 5: 
CHUCKY, Season 3, New Episodes 

October 12: 
The Black Phone, 2021* 

October 16: 
Rob Zombie’s Halloween, 2007* 
Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, 2009* 

October 27: 
Five Nights at Freddy’s, 2023*  

SCREAMING NOW 
11/11/11, 2011
100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck, 2012
13 Nights of Elvira, Season 1, 2014
13/13/13, 2013
1BR, 2019
20 Feet Below: The Darkness Descending, 2013
2-Headed Shark Attack, 2012
30 Miles from Nowhere, 2018
4/20 Massacre, 2018
5ive Girls, 2006
Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies, 2012
Against the Night, 2017
Alien Convergence, 2017
Alien Origin, 2012
Alone, 2020
American Psycho, 2000* 
American Psycho 2, 2002* 
An American Werewolf in Paris, 1997
The Amityville Haunting, 2011
Angelica, 2015
Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes, 2011
Another Evil, 2016
The Appearance, 2018
Asylum: Twisted Horror and Fantasy Tales, 2020
Attack of the Killer Donuts, 2016
Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies, 2016
Autopsy, 2008
Ayla, 2017
Bad Moon, 1996
Battledogs, 2013
Beast Mode, 2020
Beast Within (aka hunter’s moon), 2021
Bedeviled, 2016
The Bell Witch Haunting, 2013
Ben, 1972
Bermuda Tentacles, 2014
Better Watch Out, 2016
The Beyond, 2017
Big Legend, 2018
Bigfoot, 2015
Birdemic: Shock and Terror, 2010
Bite Marks, 2011
Black Christmas, 1974
Bliss, 2019
The Blood Lands, 2014
Blood Punch, 2013
Bloodthirsty, 2020
Body Bags, 1993
Boo, 2005
Braid, 2018
Bram Stoker’s Shadowbuilder (special edition), 1998
Breakdown Lane, 2017
The Breed, 2006
Butchers, 2020
Camp Cold Brook, 2018
Cannibals and Carpet Fitters, 2017
The Carmilla Movie, 2017
The Carrier, 2015
Catskill Park, 2018
The Changeling, Season 1, 2023
Cheap Thrills, 2013
Chucky (TV series), Seasons 1 and 2, 2021
Cockneys vs Zombies, 2012
Communion, 1989
Conjurer, 2008
Corbin Nash, 2018
Crush, 1992
A Cry from Within, 2015
Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween, 2022
Curtains, 1983
Dan Curtis’ Dracula, 1974
Daniel Isn’t Real, 2019
Dark Night of the Scarecrow: Deluxe Collector’s Edition, 1981
The Dark Red, 2018
Dark Sense, 2019
The Dark Side of the Moon, 1990
Dark Net, Season 1, 2016
Darlin’, 2019
Day of the Dead, 1985
Day of the Dead, 2008
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium, 2005 
Daylight’s End, 2016
Dead & Buried, 1981
Dead Awake, 2017
Dead Birds, 2004
A Dead Calling, 2006
Dead Heist, 2007
Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead, 2014
Deadheads, 2011
Death Ranch, 2020
Deathcember, 2019
Deathgasm, 2015
Decoys, 2004
Demon Eye, 2019
A Demon Within, 2017
The Divine Fury, 2019
Dogface: A Traphouse Horror, 2021
Dollhouse, 2020
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, 2005
Don’t Hang Up, 2016
Don’t Kill It, 2016
Doppelganger, 1993
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, 1971
Dracula’s Widow, 1988
Dreamscape, 1984
Eaten Alive, 1976
Eloise, 2016 
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Count Dracula’s Great Love, 1973
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks, 1974
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Gamera, Super Monster, 1980
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Legacy of Blood, 1978
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Maneater of Hydra, 1967
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Monstroid, 1980
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: The Devil’s Wedding Night, 1973
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: The Doomsday Machine, 1972
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: The House that Screamed, 1969
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: The Werewolf of Washington, 1973
Elvira’s Movie Macabre: They Came from Beyond Space, 1967
Emelie, 2015
The Endless, 2017
Escape the Field, 2022 * 
Estranged, 2015
Evil Bong 420, 2015
Evil Bong 777, 2018
Evil Bong: High 5, 2016
Evil Born, 2012
The Evil, 1978
The Exorcist III, 1990
Eyes of the Dead, 2015
A Fantastic Fear of Everything, 2012
The Farm, 2018
Fear, Inc., 2016
Feedback, 2019 
The Fields, 2011
Final Draft, 2007
Final Girl, 2015
The Final Wish, 2018
Firestarter, 2022* 
First Born, 2007
The Follower, 2022
Frankenstein, 2015
Fresh Hell, 2021
From the Dark, 2020
The Funhouse Massacre, 2015
Galaxy of Terror, 1981
Ghost Light, 2018
Ghost Squad, 2015
GhostHouse, 2017
Ginger Snaps, 2000
Girl in the Woods, Season 1, 2021* 
The Golem, 2018
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, 2018
Grimm Love, 2006
Halloweed, 2016
Halloween Party, 2019
Hammer House of Horror, Season 1, 2022
Hangman, 2017
Hansel & Gretel Get Baked, 2013
Hansel and Gretel, 2013
Hansel vs Gretel, 2015
Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, 2005
Hatchet III, 2013
Haunted Hospital: Heilstatten, 2018
Haunting of Whaley House, 2012
Hayride 2, 2015
Hell Night, 1981
Henry 2: Portrait of a Serial Killer, 1996
Henry: Portrait of a Serial killer: 30th Anniversary, 2016
He’s Out There, 2018
Hold Your Breath, 2012
Hostile, 2017
The House at the End of Time, 2013
House of Fears, 2007
The House of the Devil, 2009
Hunger, 2009
Hunted, 2020
Hypothermia, 2012
I Am Lisa, 2020 
I Drink Your Blood, 1970
In The Trap, 2019
Infection, 2019
Infini, 2015
The Innkeepers, 2011
Intruders, 2015
The Invisible Man, 2020* 
Invitation to Hell, 1984
Island Zero, 2018
The Isle, 2018
It Stains the Sands Red, 2016
Itsy Bitsy, 2019
Jack Frost, 1997
Jack in the Box, 2019
Jack in the Box: Awakening, 2022
Jackals, 2017
Killer Kate!, 2018
Killer Weekend, 2020
Killers Within, 2018
Kolchak: The Night Stalker – S1, 1974
L.A.  Slasher, 2015
Lake Alice, 2018
Last Shift, 2016
Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf, 2014
The Lazarus Effect, 2015
Let Us Prey, 2014
The Lodgers, 2017
The Love Witch, 2016
Lyle, 2014
Magic, 1978
Malevolence, 2004
Malevolence 2: Bereavement Director’s Cut, 2010
Malevolence 3: Killer, 2018
The Maze, 2010
Medusa, 2021
Mermaid Down, 2019
Mid-Century*, 2022
Mikey: Collector’s Edition, 1992
Misfortune, 2016
Most Likely to Die, 2015
Mr. Mercedes, Season 1-2, 2017-2018* 
Mr. Mercedes, Season 3, 2019 *
Murder Manual, 2020
My Friend Dahmer, 2017
My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, 2020
Nails, 2017
New Getter Robo, 2004
The Night Eats the World, 2018
Night of the Demons, 1988 
Night of the Living Dead, 1968
Nightbreed, 1990
Nine Miles Down, 2009
Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979
One of Us, 2018
Open 24 Hours
Open Grave, 2013
Open Graves, 2009
Out of the Dark, 2014
The Perfect Witness, 2007
Pet, 2016
Phantasm, 1979
Phantasm 3, 1994
Phantasm 4, 1998
Phantasm: Ravager, 2016
Phantom Racer, 2009
Pieces, 1982
Piranha, 1978
The Pit, 1981
Plague Town, 2008
Pod, 2015
Possessing Piper Rose, 2011
The Price We Pay*, 2022
Primal Rage: Bigfoot Reborn, 2018
Prom Night, 1980 
Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou, 1987
Prom Ride, 2015
Puppet Master, 1989
Puppet Master 2, 1990
Puppet Master 3: Toulon’s revenge, 1991
Puppet Master 4, 1993
Puppet Master 5, 1994
Puppet Master: The Legacy, 2003
Purgatory, 1999
The Purge, Season 1, 2018
The Purge, Season 2, 2018
Q: The Winged Serpent, 1982
Queen: The Awakening, 2022
The Quiet Ones, 2014* 
Rabid, 2019
The Rake, 2018
Rampant, 2018
Rare exports: A christmas Tale, 2010
Red Christmas, 2016
The Reflecting Skin, 1990
Ride Scare, 2020 
Rigor Mortis, 2013
Road Games, 1981 or 2015
The Sacrament, 2013
Saturday the 14th, 1981
Saturn 3, 1980
Shark Lake, 2015
Shock Waves (special edition), 1977
Sick, 2022* 
Sick for Toys, 2018
Sleepaway Camp, 1983
The Special, 2020
Spirit, 2001
Split Second, 1992
Stake Land, 2010
Stake Land II, 2016
Starry Eyes, 2014
Stepfather II, 1989
The Stepfather, 1987
Stonehearst Asylum, 2014
Story Game, 2020
Swarmed, 2005
Tales from the Crib: American Nightmares, 2018
Terraformars, Season 1-2 , 2014
Terrifier, 2016
Terror Birds, 2016
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary Edition, 1974
The Ghosts of Borley Rectory, 2021
The Nights Before Christmas, 2019
The Pit and the Pendulum, 1991
The Visitor 1979
They/Them, 2022*
To the Devil… A daughter, 1976
Tourist Trap, 1979
Train to Busan, 2016
Trash Fire, 2016
Triangle, 2009
Unidentified, 2006
V/H/S, 2012
Vamp U, 2011
Vampire in Vega, 2009
Vampire Princess Miyu, Season 1-2, 1997
Vanishing on 7th Street, 2010
The Vault, 2021
Victor Crowley, 2017
The Void, 2016
The Wailing, 2016
Warnings, 2021
We Are Still Here, 2015
Wes Craven Presents Don’t Look Down, 1998
When a Stranger Calls, 1979
Willard, 2003
Willow Creek, 2013
Wired Shut, 2021
Wolf like Me, Season 1, 2022*
Yoga Hosers, 2016
You Should Have Left, 2022*
You Won’t Be Alone, 2022*
Zombie Night, 2013
Zoombies, 2016

HALLOWEEN THEMED TV EPISODES
30 Rock: “Stone Mountain” (2009) – Season 4, Episode 3
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: “HalloVeen” (2017) – Season 5, Episode 4
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: “Halloween II” (2014) – Season 2, Episode 4
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: “Halloween III” (2015) – Season 3, Episode 5
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: “Halloween IV” (2016) – Season 4, Episode 5
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: “Halloween” (2013) – Season 1, Episode 6
Charmed: “All Halliwell’s Eve” (2000) – Season 3, Episode 4
Charmed: “Kill Billie, Volume 1” (2005) – Season 8, Episode 6
Everybody Hates Chris: “Everybody Hates Halloween” (2005) – Season 1, Episode 6 
Everybody Loves Raymond: “Halloween Candy” (1998) – Season 3, Episode 6
George Lopez: “Halloween Cheer” (2002) – Season 2, Episode 4
George Lopez: “Leave It to Lopez” (2004) – Season 4, Episode 5
George Lopez: “No One Gets Out Alive” (2003) – Season 3, Episode 7
George Lopez: “Trick or Treat Me Right” (2005) – Season 5, Episode 5
The King of Queens: “Ticker Treat” (2001) – Season 4, Episode 6
Law & Order: “Ghosts” (2005) – Season 16, Episode 3
Law & Order: Criminal Intent: “Masquerade” (2006) – Season 6, Episode 6
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: “Glasgowman’s Wrath” (2014) – Season 16, Episode 6 Monk: “Mr. Monk Goes Home Again” (2005) – Season 4, Episode 2
Murder, She Wrote: “Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble” (1989) – Season 5, Episode 13
Murder, She Wrote: “Legacy of Borbey House” (1993) – Season 10, Episode 3
Murder, She Wrote: “Nan’s Ghost: Part 1” (1995) – Season 12, Episode 6
Murder, She Wrote: “Night of the Headless Horseman” (1987) – Season 3, Episode 11 
Murder, She Wrote: “Reflections of the Mind” (1985) – Season 2, Episode 6
Murder, She Wrote: “The Witch’s Curse” (1992) – Season 8, Episode 12
Parks and Recreation: “Greg Pikitis” (2009) – Season 2, Episode 7
Parks and Recreation: “Halloween Surprise” (2012) – Season 5, Episode 5
Parks and Recreation: “Meet ‘n’ Greet” (2011) – Season 4, Episode 5
Parks and Recreation: “Recall Vote” (2013) – Season 6, Episode 7
Psych: “This Episode Sucks” (2011) – Season 6, Episode 3
Punky Brewster: “Love Thy Neighbor” (1985) – Season 2, Episode 10
Punky Brewster: “The Perils of Punky: Parts 1” (1985) – Season 2, Episode 6
Punky Brewster: “The Perils of Punky: Parts 2” (1985) – Season 2, Episode 7
Superstore: “Costume Competition” (2018) – Season 4, Episode 4
Superstore: “Halloween Theft” (2016) – Season 2, Episode 7
Superstore: “Sal’s Dead” (2017) – Season 3, Episode 5
Superstore: “Trick-or-Treat” (2019) – Season 5, Episode 6
Two and a Half Men: “Hi, Mr. Horned One” (2005) – Season 3, Episode 6
Two and a Half Men: “The Ol’ Mexican Spinach” (2014) – Season 12, Episode 1

If There Were Ever Another Halloween Movie Sequel, We Need To Start From Halloween 4

HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS has been and always will be one of my favorite movies of all time. I can’t say with a straight face that I prefer the 1978 classic over Michael’s triumphant return to Haddonfield, because that would just be lying to myself, and you and I have goddamn integrity. While I don’t believe in my dark Halloween heart RETURN to be the best overall in the franchise, it’s the one that, I personally, have the most fun watching and is the most nostalgic for me as an 80s kid. I also believe that this massively magnificent movie got insanely fucked with its follow-up sequel REVENGE OF MICHAEL MYERS, as RETURN laid out the perfect continence of the Lloyd and Myers legacy, just to throw it all away for some shadow-man douchebag and the beginning of the THORN story.

This was a mistake that I can never get past and on the year of HALLOWEEN 4‘s 35th Anniversary, I’m screaming into the void that we don’t want, but NEED that story to continue as originally panned out IF there were ever another Halloween sequel/reboot/remake… whatever.

Because you know, as well as I do, that is eventually going to happen whether you like it or not.

The cat and mouse game between Loomis, Myers, Jamie and the greatest final girl of the franchise, Rachel, is tension-driven throughout the whole film without it ever becoming cheesy or even cliché for a slasher flick. The nighttime aesthetic is gorgeous as hell, with those ominous blues and blacks washing over the screen, falling over a silent street where death awaits. Not to mention during the day when October 31st can practically be smelled through the screen. The opening credits alone set the tone for the entire film, and it never faltered beyond that.

HALLOWEEN 4 provided the fans what they wanted after the box-office bomb and, at the time, mostly universally hated continuance of the HALLOWEEN franchise with SEASON OF THE WITCH. Michael was back from the dead, and so was a now more than ever obsessed Loomis hot on Myers’ track after his escape and brutal murder of some EMTs from a hospital transfer; who is now after Jamie Lloyd, the daughter of the recently Laurie Strode and one and only living relative of Michael. Of course, in pure tradition, Myers has to off every member of his family to appease his homicidal Samhain compulsion, so the eight-year-old is on his most wanted list.

Jamie (Danielle Harris), now in the sole care of the Carruthers’ family after the untimely death of her mother only eleven months prior, is mercilessly bullied at school, feels like an outcast and a burden to her foster family, while seeming to not have many friends. The perfect makings of a serial killer, eh? Despite our sympathy for the child, these subtle hints come full-circle in the finale of the movie after Myers is shot down in a cemetery by what’s left of Haddonfield’s finest after Michael done near killed half the town already. In the film, Jamie is sort of pulled towards a laid-out Myers and grabs his hand in a sort of sweet, yet weird way, (like, this guy was trying to kill you sweetie, WHAT THE FUCK are you doing). She’s almost in a trance-like state until the sheriff and Rachel scream at her to get out of the way before unloading 10,000 bullets into Michael, putting him out of the business of Halloween murdering for good. Or, well, at least this year anyway.

Back at the Carruthers’ residence in the aftermath, Jamie’s foster mother is drawing a bath for the child when her screams are heard downstairs among the survivors of the night. Loomis, running halfway up the stairs looks in horror as Jamie is seen in her costume, mask donned with sporting a pair of bloody scissors implying she killed her foster mom, giving new life to the Myers legacy as his spirit lives on inside her.

NOW THAT WAS A PERFECT ENDING.

Some theories would argue that Myers “spirit” leaped into Jamie when she touched his hand in the cemetery. However, I’m inclined to believe Jamie was fighting these demons throughout the entire movie. With the biggest evidence being the scene inside Vincent Drug where she pulls the same costume as her uncle once wore when he was a child. Almost as if it were fate that this was the perfect costume. Is the costume evil itself?! That’s a personal theory that I would love to expand on, or hell even see some sort of sister made from, but nah. I think Jamie just has it in her blood. No matter how hard she tries to fight it, the subconscious compulsion that was buried deep inside her, finally takes over, and it was in Myers death that it was allowed to fully reveal itself.

In the novelization by Nicholas Grabowsky, this theory is actually given some credence as it’s written when Jamie is in the school hiding from Michael, she sees a vision of her dead mother in a nightgown, begging Jamie to “not give in and allow Myers to take her” and to “snap out of it”. This, along with other expanded scenes, was released in the updated version of the book back in 2003- and I HIGHLY recommend any HALLOWEEN fan picking it up.

Also, worth noting in the book, the good Reverend Jack Sawyer has a prominent role being stinkin’ drunk off corn whiskey all through the way and at one point, actually comes face to face with Michael Myers, So if you’re a fan of damnation mister, you’ll definitely want to read on his expanded adventures.

All that being said, IF there were to be a continuance of the Halloween films in any sort of way whatsoever, I think a direct continuation from HALLOWEEN 4 would be the best bet and actually make up for the bullshit storyline that did my girl Rachel real dirty in HALLOWEEN 5. Don’t get me wrong, I have soft nostalgic spots for REVENGE; but it’s not what it should have been.

Seeing as how HALLOWEEN 4 was made 35 years ago, the obvious way to make this story work in continuing form would be an adult Jamie (Danielle Harris of course) rotting away in a mental asylum just like her uncle before her and in traditional fashion, have her escape and go after her foster sister Rachel, WHO IS STILL ALIVE BECAUSE FUCK HALLOWEEN 5, and we have a goddamn movie. Of course, the clown mask would have to come into play as Jamie’s murder shrouds to legitimize it because her picking up her uncle’s mask might just be too cliché and predictable. Jamie would need to have her own persona for it to work, and Harris has the chops to do it.

If Universal is actually listening, far-fetched I know, throw this idea on the writer’s table because we all damn well know you all are thinking about it already!

What are your thoughts? Should we let sleeping boogymen lie, or should the HALLOWEEN franchise take this direction in the future?